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My son is 20 months old and loves to swing my golf clubs and copy what I do so we bought him a mixed junior set right handed from a garage sale over the summer. Now he’s swinging a little better and is swinging lefty. Do you think it is still to early to tell or does he know he’s a lefty? I’d like to by him a lefty set but wasn’t sure if I should wait until he’s a little older. I posted some videos below. Thanks! 
 

 

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That’s the cutest thing I’ve ever seen!  Cherish these moments!  Personally though, I would not buy him lefty clubs.  Kids do weird things and he is just so young.  Heck, it really doesn’t matter much if he just keeps doing it like that as young as he is.  The main reason I would not get him lefty clubs yet is that if you do, you are kind of deciding he is a lefty and it seems likely to stick.  Even if you let him choose later he will probably be more comfortable swinging lefty at that point.  Wether that matters or not I suppose we could debate...

 

or you could teach him to play both ways and he can hustle people like Titanic Thompson.  He was an old school gambler who was a natural lefty and taught himself to play near scratch righty.  After beating someone right handed he would say something like “I could beat you left handed” and make a big bet.  When asked why he didn’t go pro he purportedly said “I can’t afford to take that sort of pay cut” as gambling on golf was more lucrative at that point, from his perspective.  So that’s an idea if he can’t decide if he likes to play left or right handed...

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2 hours ago, jomatty said:

That’s the cutest thing I’ve ever seen!  Cherish these moments!  Personally though, I would not buy him lefty clubs.  Kids do weird things and he is just so young.  Heck, it really doesn’t matter much if he just keeps doing it like that as young as he is.  The main reason I would not get him lefty clubs yet is that if you do, you are kind of deciding he is a lefty and it seems likely to stick.  Even if you let him choose later he will probably be more comfortable swinging lefty at that point.  Wether that matters or not I suppose we could debate...

 

or you could teach him to play both ways and he can hustle people like Titanic Thompson.  He was an old school gambler who was a natural lefty and taught himself to play near scratch righty.  After beating someone right handed he would say something like “I could beat you left handed” and make a big bet.  When asked why he didn’t go pro he purportedly said “I can’t afford to take that sort of pay cut” as gambling on golf was more lucrative at that point, from his perspective.  So that’s an idea if he can’t decide if he likes to play left or right handed...

Thanks! I will! I love that he loves golf so much already. Yea I’ll just hold off on buying him clubs right now. Just keep letting him mess around. That would be sweet if he could play lefty and righty lol

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What do you think @heavy_hitter

 

My six-year-old niece is in the same predicament regarding golfing dexterity.  She has a righty father who comes from a golfing family (talented amateur who works in the biz, brother is a pro in Orlando), and a lefty-swinging mom who played college softball.  Dad wants the daughter to golf righty for teaching purposes, mom is yielding to his experience.  

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On 11/8/2020 at 9:50 AM, MB19 said:

What do you think @heavy_hitter

 

My six-year-old niece is in the same predicament regarding golfing dexterity.  She has a righty father who comes from a golfing family (talented amateur who works in the biz, brother is a pro in Orlando), and a lefty-swinging mom who played college softball.  Dad wants the daughter to golf righty for teaching purposes, mom is yielding to his experience.  

You can teach them to swing from either side at that age.  I would think you would teach the side that is most natural.

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On 11/9/2020 at 1:21 PM, Kcct82 said:

My 4 year old is right handed, but wants to swing left handed naturally. I really want him to switch so he can use his older brother’s used clubs. 

 

Once they are out of junior clubs it doesn't matter.  There are too many big differences in swing shaft combos. 

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